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Is Calvin Ridley for DeAndre Hopkins fair?

Calvin Ridley and DeAndre Hopkins have been on opposite sides of 28 real dynasty trades.

Not simulations and not a calculator lining up two numbers. Every one of them is a completed trade from a public Sleeper league, graded at the player values that were current on the day it happened.

Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 1 of them were straight up: Calvin Ridley for DeAndre Hopkins, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 4 of those 5 times it was the Calvin Ridley side (1 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating DeAndre Hopkins as the more valuable of the two.

28
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
4 / 1
One side sweetened: Calvin Ridley / DeAndre Hopkins

What they cost today

Everything above is priced on the day each deal happened, which is the only honest way to grade a completed trade. It is not what they cost now. Today Calvin Ridley prices at 60 and DeAndre Hopkins at 3, so the market currently rates Calvin Ridley about 20.0x the other. A pair can lean one way across its history and price the opposite way now; that gap is the whole reason to check the deal in front of you rather than the deal someone made in 2023.

Values as of 2026-07-24.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Calvin RidleyWent with DeAndre Hopkins
2024-07-26-51%Jaleel McLaughlin, Luke Musgrave, Josh Downs, 1 moreDerrick Henry, Gerald Everett, Baker Mayfield, 1 more
2023-10-04-84%Aidan O'Connell, Jimmy Garoppolo, Tyler Higbee, 12 more, 1 3rd, 2 later picksRussell Wilson, Travis Kelce, Keenan Allen, 9 more
2023-10-04-84%Aidan O'Connell, Jimmy Garoppolo, Tyler Higbee, 12 more, 1 3rd, 2 later picksRussell Wilson, Travis Kelce, Keenan Allen, 9 more
2023-07-21+5%Trey PalmerTyler Allgeier
2023-07-17+30%Allen Lazard
2023-07-13-2%Jalen Hurts, Garrett WilsonDak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, Jordan Addison, 1 1st
2023-05-15-17%Geno Smith, 1 1st, 1 2ndDak Prescott, Jerry Jeudy, Cade Otton, 1 3rd
2023-01-17+43%Nick ChubbPat Freiermuth
2022-12-30-61%
2022-12-08+51%Javonte WilliamsJames Conner

Read each row as: Calvin Ridley, plus anything in the third column, was traded for DeAndre Hopkins plus anything in the fourth. An em dash means that side sent nobody else. Margin is the value gap at that day’s prices from the side that received Calvin Ridley; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 28, the whole-deal value gap runs -7.3% from the side that received Calvin Ridley, so the side ending up with DeAndre Hopkins has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Calvin Ridley for DeAndre Hopkins fair” by subtracting one number from another, and it gives every manager in your league the same answer. That tells you nothing about whether the trade closes. What closes it is whether one side has to attach a piece, and which side that usually is. The 28 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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